On Women

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Bringing together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing, On Women examines the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation.

'Sontag is one of the most influential critics of her generation' New York Review of Books

First written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays examine the 'biological division of labour', the double standard for ageing and the struggle for real power, topics which are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations.

For any Sontag fan, this collection of lost essays is a revelation into her achievements as an essayist.

'One of America's greatest public intellectuals' Observer

'Susan Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites' The Times

'At the time she died, she was America's best-known public intellectual. To my mind, she was also the most exemplary' John Gray, New Statesman

©2023 Susan Sontag (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

  • A voice that is rigorous still, but bolder and freer and more gladiatorial in its pronouncements

    The New Yorker

  • It’s her clarity that can make you gasp, combined with her confidence . . . what shines through this book is the extraordinary suppleness of her mind . . . She articulated, in punchy, matter-of-fact prose, thoughts that for most of us would stay at best half-formed

    Sunday Times

  • On Women offers tantalizing glimmers and hints [of] what Susan Sontag would make of our current political moment . . . Sontag’s stylish, idiosyncratic approach to the feminist debates and preoccupations of her era can be distilled pretty well into tangible guidance for ours

    The Atlantic

  • On Women demonstrates a powerful mind and equally forceful personality . . . like turning back the clock to the days of Sontag’s prime

    The Herald

  • Sontag’s language is urgent . . . and boldly provocative. Those previously unsure where she stood on the politics of womanhood, or found her opaque on the topic, can be in no doubt after this

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